Re: Samba network printers unusable with default Fedora Desktop installs

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On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 15:26 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> I recently discovered that if I have a printer attached to a Windows
> machine (and shared via samba), it'll unusable on default install,
> because samba-client isn't installed by default.
> 
> 
> control-center's printers panel managed to discover the printer, but
> after the driver prompt dialog it gave a cryptic error message and did
> not install the printer.
> 
> 
> After installing samba-client, adding a samba network printer worked
> as expected. Therefor I suggest we add samba-client to our default
> installation, it's only 1.2MB.

Why does it need samba-client? It's a package containing command-line
utilities none of which seem to be used by gnome-control-center.

> Ideally I think it should be added as a Requires in control-center's
> spec file, but we could add it to comps instead.
<snip>


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